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would never speak of the incident again — just as she attempted to keep his alco- holism secret. Because Ray had pur-


chased the San Diego Padres, the couple moved in to a lux- urious home in Fairbanks Ranch. Word about Ray’s drinking was hard to sup- press. In one game, typi- cally, the Padres were getting whipped. Ray, cocktail glass in hand, barged into the pub- lic address announcers’ box. He grabbed the microphone, apologized for the team’s play, and said, “This is the most stu- pid ball playing I’ve ever seen.” In 1976, Joan set up


Operation Cork, which informed doctors and health workers of the dangers of alcoholism. The secret about Kroc’s drinking was out. She attended Alcoholics Anon- ymous meetings to under- stand his behavior. She had minor vices, too. She would go “off to Vegas to gamble for sixteen hours straight,” writes Napoli. After he died, and particu-


larly after she learned she had little time to live, she accel- erated her giving: the uni- versities of Notre Dame and San Diego to promote peace, Salvation Army, an animal center, San Diego Opera, KPBS…the list goes on.


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“There will be no press opportu- nities or availabilities, i.e., press conferences or statements,” and “Vice President Gore will accept no interview requests.” Two years later, in October 2009, Spector was out at UCSD, said to be let go due to university budget cuts. She later became chief communi- cations officer at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies from 2011 to 2013 and went on to handle public relations for the non- profit nutrition sciences initia- tive in Washington DC. This past April, Democratic governor Jerry Brown put her on the board of California’s state Bar. Local GOP wags assert that if Spector fails in


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her homeless mission, Faulconer can say it’s the Democrat’s fault. — Matt Potter (@sdmattpotter)


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subsequently named to the board by company chairman Mike Ferro — wants to carve out a part-ownership role for himself at the L.A. Times as part of any Gannett deal. “First: Gannett gains


ownership of the Times along with the other tronc properties, but then sells a minority interest in either Gannett overall or in a Times subsidiary to Soon-Shiong,” per Doctor. “Second: Gannett would


agree to set up an ‘inde- pendent’ board in L.A. to review the Times’ journal- ism and insure the robust- ness of its future report. Housing the fourth-largest newsroom in the nation, the Times would gain a kind of semi-independent status in the deal not granted to any other newspaper in the Gan- nett ecosystem.” All perhaps well and good


for the Times, but the ques- tion of what would ultimately happen to the smaller San Diego Union-Tribune, now an increasingly satellite-style operation that relies on the Times’s Los Angeles printing plant to produce its papers, remains unanswered. Over the years, a succes-


sion of L.A-based would-be owners of the Times have been said to have coveted its control, including billionaire Democrat Eli Broad, a char- ter schools champion who over the years has dabbled in both Los Angeles and San Diego politics but never managed to close a deal for either paper. Though tronc has talked


up using computer tech- nology developed by Soon- Shiong to boost the chain’s online revenue, a widely


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mocked video posted earlier this year regarding the com- pany’s video plans omitted any mention of San Diego. Matt Potter


Bridgepoint over troubled waters School needs court-case win to survive “Bridgepoint Education will likely not exist this time next year,” writes research ana- lyst Duane Bair in an October 23 essay for Seeking Alpha. “The same circumstances that bankrupted peers could result in the demise of Bridgepoint.” The bankruptcy of Corin-


thian Colleges awakened Americans to how corrupt many of these for-profit schools are. Bridgepoint has hired “an


army of prominent lobbyists,” but it could still be cut off from the Department of Edu- cation and GI Bill funding that provide most of its income, says Bair. Since 2011, atten- dance at Ashford University, its main institution, has plunged 44 percent. “The [Securities and


Exchange Commission] has opened a formal inquiry into Bridgepoint and the Department of Education has started pulling funds from sub-par accrediting agencies,” says Bair. Getting federal funding is


a problem. Ashford closed its tiny Iowa campus (an actual campus, not online, which constitutes more than 90 percent of courses). Bridge- point dropped its attempt to get GI Bill funding through California. A legal proceed- ing in Iowa has been stayed, but only short-term. “Once the stay is lifted


and the case resolved, Ash- ford will likely lose access to GI Bill funding,” writes Bair. The GI Bill accounts for 19.1 percent of its funding. The Consumer Financial Protec- tion Bureau found last month that Bridgepoint had com- mitted “illegal student lend- ing practices.” The agency said Bridgepoint knowingly instructed staff to lie to cur- rent and potential students.


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off a “miraculous win” in the Iowa court case, it will lose GI Bill funding and will not com- ply with a federal mandate on the percentage of its funds coming from the government. “At that point, it is a mere inevitability that the school will be shuttered,” says Bair. Don Bauder


Pacific Imperial Railroad claims bankruptcy Metropolitan Transit System remains hitched to troubled company Pacific Imperial Railroad, the leaseholder of the publicly owned 70-mile stretch of rail- road from Campo to Plaster City known as the Desert Line, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. As reported by the


Reader on several occasions, the railroad company that entered into a $1-million-per- year lease with Metropolitan


Transit System in 2011 has faced many obstacles. The bankruptcy petition


was filed on October 10 in U.S. federal court. According to the petition, the company owes investors more than $7 million in unsecured debt. The company has only $1.6 million in the bank, much of which was paid to them by Baja Rail, which entered into an agreement with Pacific Imperial earlier this year to sublease the line in order to connect the track in Mexico. Despite the news, as


well as a lack of progress on the line, transit officials have announced that the public agency is sticking with the company. “The San Diego Met-


ropolitan Transit System believes this gives [Pacific Imperial Railroad] a path forward to resolve creditor and shareholder disputes while continuing to make progress on improvements


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to the Desert Line,” reads an October 14 statement. Transit officials point


to the recent sublease with Baja Rail as the rea- son the current lease will remain intact. The Mexican company, according to the statement, has plans to pur- chase the master lease from Pacific Imperial Railroad. “...[Baja Rail] can begin


work on the track, bridges, and tunnels in the U.S. This bank- ruptcy filing has no impact on those reconstruction efforts. “This would ensure that


the Desert Line remains in capable, responsible hands and that reconstruction prog- ress would continue without disruption. [Metropolitan Transit System] retains the right to evaluate any pro- posed assignment of the [Pacific Imperial Railroad] master lease based on its best interests. All provisions of the lease are still in effect.” Dorian Hargrove


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